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...after speech, Yarborough told Texans: "You know during that campaign the poor old Democrat donkey got kicked all over Texas, and the person kicking him the hardest was Allan Shivers. He beat that Democratic donkey until he was bleeding around the ears, and he was lame in his left hind leg . . . Nobody much wanted that donkey then, but I took him home and put him in the stable and nursed him ... By this spring you couldn't count his ribs, and his hair was shining like a silver fox. I got on that donkey and started to ride...
Jawaharlal Nehru and his Indians seemed just as anxious to please. Nehru had run 2,500 friends of Red China out to the airport in 50 chartered buses so they could shower Chou with rose petals and cry out "Chin Hind bhai bhai" (Chinese and Indians are brothers, brothers) as the black-garbed Communist walked down the ramp. Nehru had Chou garlanded with flowers, led him around a guard of honor...
...Reader Stearns's views on galloping horses [TIME Letters, March 22]: maybe the drawing of the Stone Age horse isn't so wrong after all. Horses do on occasion have their front legs stretched out in front and their hind legs extending to the rear . . . The horse in the picture (enclosed) is crossing the finish line in a race at Gulfstream Park, and the camera caught him thus...
...painting Midnight Ride of Paul Revere in your March 1 issue, you say ". . . it lacks every grace save precision and is as meticulous in execution as a Flemish altarpiece." Perhaps, but no horse . . . ever galloped with his two front legs stretched out in front and his two hind legs extending to the rear...
...authorities have ordered all pet dogs and cats inoculated, all strays destroyed. Not unduly upset by the fact that 313 Chicagoans were bitten in four days last week, Antivivisectionist Castle (long egged on by the Hearst press), wanted pet owners to know that anti-rabies shots "would paralyze the hind legs of dogs." Though claiming to be no "damn fool," Irene, who in more than 25 years of running animal shelters has prided herself on an average of three bites a week, blithely offered to let any old mad dog bite her and to "put up $5,000 that...